This document describes the author's experience with dental phobia and how hypnosis helped cure it. It then discusses the author's career path from engineering to psychology, where he continued studying and using hypnosis and other relaxation techniques. Some key points:
- As a young man, the author had severe dental phobia and was unable to get dental work done until a dentist used hypnosis to relax him and perform extensive work in just 1.5 hours.
- This experience led the author to study hypnosis and pursue it as an avocation while working as an engineer. He later obtained a psychology PhD and practiced as a psychologist, using hypnosis and relaxation techniques.
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